The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-05-10
THE QUAKES.
qarrible Damage in Various
Parts of Mexico.
cgg VOLCANO STORY UNTRUE:
o Topo graphy of the Mountain
IH9 ur+rv in the South Changed
by the Quakes-NOtes.
The Earthquakes.

r,9rno Texas, May 8.-Passengers
arriving on the Monterey train report
to+ great fires are raging on the sum-
~. nj the mountains in many places
- both sides of the road. Whether
tbooe fires have any connection with the
cent .aca earthquake disturbances IN Ari-
1 -ona and New Mexico is yet to be deter
-oined, as the way to these mountains is
almost inaccessible.
airy Cry OF MEXICO, via Galveston, May 8.
Government, to-day, received its first
iDformation regarding the disastrous
n.aarthouake on the Sd inst, at the town
90 Bohispe, in the District of Monte
yrma. Sonora, by which $50 persons
Lost their lives. The earthquake oc-
r crrred at $50. At the same time vol
cenic eruptions began in the neighbor-
inc mountains lighting up the SUBMITS
. long distance. The prediction made
bv local scientists, Is that Mexico is
ebont to undergo general seismic con-
ynIsion. and recent records of earth
nnakes show that there is widespread
volcanic activity from one end of Mex
leo to the other.
SoGAIEs, Arizona, May 8.-The
earthquake, last Tuesday, created sad
havoc in the northeastern portion of
Sonora, Mex. This portion Of the
Ststeis far from railroad or Geographic
communication. The following dispatch
vas received here to-day, from Luis E.
Torres, Governor of Sonora:
HERMosILLo. MEX, Mays.
The earthquake caused terrible dam
age in Moctezuma. 1t destroyed several
villages, but those in the northwest part
suffered the most terrible. Oputo has
sll its houses destroyed and nine per-
sons were killed. Bohispe was utterly
destroyed, and 100 persons, were killed.
Houses were leyeled to the ground. A
new volcano appeared and its eruptions
destroyed timoers and pastures of ad-
Joining valleys and mountains. Further
details are expected hourly.
LUIS E. TORRES.
The volcano mentioped in the dis
patch is in the famous Sierra Madre
mountains. In this place a pretty Sc
we're shock Of earthquake was felt this
morning at 2 clock.
TEsCoN, Arizona, May S.-From one
to two slight shocks of earthquake were
felt for several days, 100 slight to cause
alarm, there is no doubt that nearly
every high mountain in southern Ari-
zena, has to a greater or less extent had
its topography changed, but as far as
can be learned, there IS no active VOL
cano among them.
BSAN FRANCIsCo, May 9.-The Calls
Tuscon special tonight says: r. J.
Kerr has returned from trip to Tres
Alamos, on the San Pedro, to which
place he was to deliver cattle to the
San Pedro Cattle Company. He re-
ports the earthquake tissure as not
less than twenty-five miles long. The
extent is from a short distance below
Benson TO fifteen miles below Tres
AlamOs. At the surface the fssure
varied in width from six to eighteen
inches. On one side the earth ha
sunk several inches. At places along
the crack water burst forth, but after
wards ceased flowing. The crack in
many places is open to depth of sew
eral feet. Above the Empire ranch, on
Sonita, seventy miles south Of here, a
iissure is also reported. Reliable in
formation states that when the earth
opened, water and mud we're thrown
10 great height. One spring in that
vicinity went dry and two Others
doubled their volume of water, but on
the cessation OF the disturbance the
ary spring recommended flow
Ing. In the other two, the
water diminished to its former state.